Lanchang Job's Tears

Lanchang Job's Tears

　　Lanchang Job's Tears is a specialty of Lanchang County in Pu'er City, Yunnan Province.

　　Lanchang County is located in the southwestern part of Yunnan, and gets its name from being east of the Lancang River. Situated south of the Tropic of Cancer, the county mainly features a subtropical monsoon mountain climate with humid summers and dry winters. It enjoys abundant rainfall, ample sunshine, no severe cold in winter or intense heat in summer, and distinct dry and rainy seasons. Lanchang Lahu Autonomous County is primarily an agricultural region, where farming plays a major role in the local economy.

　　By the end of 2004, the Lanchang County Science and Technology Bureau and its affiliated association had demonstrated the cultivation of Job's tears across 5,680 mu in four townships—Zhutang, Donghui, Laba, and Menglang—yielding a total output of 1,420 tons. In recent years, the Job's tears produced and processed in Lanchang County have been mainly sold to Bozhou in Anhui, Zhangshu in Guangxi, Qingping in Guangdong, Yulin in Guangxi, and Chengdu in Sichuan, indicating a stable sales market for the product.